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daubed, ppl. a.|dɔːbd|
[f. daub v. + -ed.]
Plastered or coated with clay, paint or sticky matter; fig. bedizened, bearing a specious exterior.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 492 In þat cofer þat watz clay daubed. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 785 Hym liketh best a daubed wough. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 125 b, Those dawbed, pargetted, and vermilion died faces. 1598Marston Pygmal. 135 Glittering in dawbed lac'd accoustrements. 1630Sir S. D'Ewes Jrnls. (1783) 67 This daubed piece..the face hath no similitude. 1785S. Fielding Ophelia I. xxv, The painted canvas is most innocent; but the daubed hypocrite most criminal. |